Cultural interpretation of ethnographic evidence relating to astronomy

Abstract

In this article, on the basis that ethnoastronomy deals with social facts, we discuss key concepts that should be problematized in ethnoastronomical studies. We deal with the de-naturalization of categories like ethnicity, identity, territory, culture, body, cosmovision and cosmology; using the contemporary production about these issues in the social sciences. Our aim is to show the relevance of this methodological reflection to the construction and interpretation of the ethnographic evidence related with astronomy.